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Waltons, The,
67
West Palm Beach, Fla.,
323
“Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?,”
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,
268
–70,
273
“Wind Beneath My Wings,”
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Wintario,
84
Woman in Me, The,
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,
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251
–57,
259
,
272
–73,
288
,
290
,
295
,
299
,
336
radio station tour for,
267
–68
“Won’t You Come Out to Play,”
68
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About the Author
SHANIA TWAIN rose to fame in the early 1990s with her debut album,
Shania Twain
(1993), and achieved worldwide success with her 1997 album,
Come On Over,
which became the bestselling album of all time by a female musician, and the bestselling country album of all time. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Twain has also achieved major success as a songwriter, winning twenty-seven BMI Songwriter awards. She has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide to date, including 48 million in the United States. Her docuseries on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network will debut in spring 2011. This is her first book.
The very first picture of me.
My father, Jerry, age twenty-two, with his three newly adopted daughters: Jill, Carrie, and me, in the backyard on Bannerman Street, 1971.
My mother cooking in a makeshift kitchen in a typical bush cabin. My father’s winter boots are drying on the wood stove.
Timmins, 1970.
With Carrie, Jill, and Mark in the stroller on Bannerman Street, Timmins, summer 1972.
With my sisters, Carrie and Jill, in the backyard of our house on Bannerman Street, Timmins, Halloween, 1972.
Carrie and me, Timmins, 1973.
My and Carrie’s first snowman of the winter, Proulx Court, Hanmer, 1975.
At the age of ten, singing with Lawrence Martin, a Native Canadian singer from Ontario.